Confidential Disclosure Form Processing - Sources Sought Notice 06.07.22.pdf

Sources Sought Processing OGE Form 450: Confidential Financial Disclosure Report

This is Sources Sought notice and is for informational purposes only. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, bids, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding the availability and capability of all qualified sources to perform a potential requirement.

This notice is issued to help determine the availability of qualified companies technically capable of meeting the Government requirement and to determine the method of acquisition. It is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. Responses will not be considered as proposals, quotes, or bids. No award will be made as a result of this notice. The Government will NOT be responsible for any costs incurred by the respondents to this notice. This notice is strictly for market research purposes only.

AmeriCorps’ Office of General Counsel has identified a need to file and track Confidential Financial Disclosure forms (OGE Form 450s) to fulfill legal ethics obligations.

AmeriCorps is seeking an accessible web-based service application for electronic filing, tracking, and reviewing of the OGE-450 financial disclosure form for all federal government employees required to file this form. The platform or software will need to provide simple, reliable online access to Form 450, filers’ reports, report and filer status tracking, and customizable automatic email notification capacity for filers and Administrators/Reviewers. The application must allow AmeriCorps to administer the system; and AmeriCorps employees must complete and submit a filing, and manage filers and filings in the application. Currently, the Government utilizes FDonline™, an application formerly hosted by NIST. FDonline™ is now developed and tested by Intelliworx, LLC.

Item Characteristics

The software or platform must provide:

• Access by reviewers and filers to the previous filing year’s report, and ability for filers to import their previous year’s data into the current year’s draft report

• Ability by the Administrator or Reviewer to assign and track status of assigned reports

• Ability to maintain and search for filer information, including name, position, filing status, and onboarding date

• Ability to send automated messages to filers about report due dates and filing status

• Ability to create email templates and send those messages to filers via the financial disclosure reporting system

• Comparability feature that allows reviewer to compare previous year’s report with the current year’s report/entries

• A report compilation feature that allows Administrators and Reviewers to extract information from the system and create various reports detailing filing status, filing dates, due dates, filer’s position, filer’s names, etc.

• All reports, data and information created by filers, reviewers and administrators remain the property of AmeriCorps at all times in perpetuity

Period of Performance The Government anticipates the software to be operational by 01 September 2022. The anticipated period of performance is s follows:

Base Period: 01 September 2022 - 31 August 31, 2023.

Option Period 01: 01 September 2022 - 31 August 31, 2023.

Option Period 02: 01 September 2022 - 31 August 31, 2023.

Option Period 03: 01 September 2022 - 31 August 31, 2023.

Option Period 04: 01 September 2022 - 31 August 31, 2023.

Applicable NAICS and Small Business Set-Aside Information The NAICS code applicable to this proposed procurement is 518210: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Under this NAICS, the size standard is $35 million.

This proposed procurement is anticipated to be set aside for small businesses in accordance with

FAR 19.502-2.

Anticipated Award Method It is anticipated that a contract will be awarded using Simplified Acquisition Procedures in accordance with FAR Part 13. Interested sources should proffer a response addressing the information presented within the Capability Statement/Informatio Sought section within this notce to facilitate the Government's market research. The Government will analyze all responses and determine if a pool of qualified and interested small businesses is significant enough to allow for a total or partial small business set-aside. If the pool of small businesses is insufficient the Government may elect to solicit this requirement using full and open competitive procedures.

The Government does not intend to rank submissions received in response to this Notice.

Capability Statement/Information Sought Respondent should provide a capability statement to address information regarding:

• Ability to provide platform to meet the salient characteristics described above;

• Staff expertise, including their availability, experience, and formal and other training;

• Current in-house capability and capacity to perform the work;

• Prior completed projects of similar nature, including examples of prior completed Government contracts, references, and other related information;

• Quality Control Plan; and

• Any other potentially relevant information (such as IT certifications, etc.)

Responses Respondent must include their Unique Identifier Number, organization name, address, and size and type of business (e.g., 8(a), Hub Zone, etc., pursuant to the applicable NAICS code and any other information that may be helpful in developing or finalizing the acquisition requirements.

Additionally, please include the technical and administrative points of contact, including names, titles, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses.

One (1) copy of the capability statement is required and must be in Adobe PDF format using 11-point or 12-point font, 8-1/2” x 11” paper size, with 1” top, bottom, left and right margins, and with single or double spacing.

The information submitted must be must be in an outline format that addresses each of the elements of the project requirement and in the capability statement/information sought paragraphs stated herein. A cover page and an executive summary may be included but is not required.

The response is limited to 10 pages, not including the cover page, executive summary, or references, if requested.

All responses to this notice must be submitted electronically to Shannon C Quick, Contract Specialist, at SQuick@cns.gov and Jasmin A. Webb, Contracting Officer, at JWebb@cns.gov.

The response must be received on or before Monday, 13 June 2022 at 2:00 PM EST.

Disclaimer and Important Notes: The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization’s qualifications to perform the work.

Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a presolicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.

mailto:SQuick@cns.gov mailto:JWebb@cns.gov

Confidentiality: No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).